LOCAL GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16216, 29 April 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

LOCAL GOSSIP.

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t^rirVE R the Easter holidays the work of |ii. : wiiiter>. It is the last holiday of the sea. [jp wifiter is last holiday of the odd fon isome favoured people nii.y have odd holidays during the nost few Months, but I for the majority summer dies villi Easter, |fefeven though the genii 1 climate of Aucki A? i land should prolong it past calendar date. ! parliament is setting tho nation a good example by meeting early to grapple with |§jf|ibe serious problems which have emerged from tho continuance of the war, and there should now be a genera! acceptance of tho f| need for serious effort by all, both those si® who go to fight and those who stay at home, in whatever direction they can help to lyS'iffiii tho war. —• #;;\The tribute which the Prime Minister has paid to New Zealand politicians for 'pff their loyal observance of tho party truce fM£ is merited. Theie has been a degree of t co-operation and mutual confidence amongst .Ministers in «ho National ||t!fCabinet which two years ago would have ,• .aT.«arcd almost impossible. Tho rank and a £(e of the parties have also sunk oldstanding rivalries in a manner which lias done mare to give politicians a reputation for sincerity than all tho party bickering let of years. Judging by the totalisatov receipts at •" the Auckland Racing Club's recent meet- ; ;;Vjing, there is no luck* of ready money in Auckland in spite of tho v ar. On Easter Saturday the totalisator su-S handled tho •'"hum of* £45,484, compared with £43,881 'on the same day last year. On Monday £48,799 • passed through tho machine, making a total of £94.283 far the meeting, ||S»'compared with £95,370 for the Easter •gathering of 1915. Tho small decreaso of £1037 is remarkable, considering the elapse of twelve months of war. On the ! first,day of the Avondale meeting, too, ' §0; {fere was money in plenty, tho betting ■ .r-üblic investing £26,140, an increase of ] .kWI over the figures far tho same day j Sin the previous year. There appears to pfe.be; plenty of money about, and on rsc© 1 dsfs, at all events, economy, national or • personal, is a thing unthcught of. 1

V<' ; ':': : .."'The balance-sheet ci this Cornwall Park '.'', . Trust is rather pathetic readings The irustees had a revenue for the year of £1957, and of this ..IC!)1 had to be paid I' in rates taxes. ci tie Cornwall Park Trust is rather pat'setio reading. The trustees had a revenue for the year of £1957, and of this ..IC9I had to be paid in rates ai:d taxes. Tiius are we show- • ing our appreciation of Sir John Campbell's great gift to the people and honour- /■" ing the memory of the donor. Some efforts i have been made M) get the trust freed [;■ : •'- from the liability to rates and taxes, but 1 without- success. Meantime the improveI '. meat of the park land which Sir John p - - Campbell contemplated and provided for, and which' the trustee, would gladly carry . out, is impossible because all the funds "',{ > are swallowed up in rates and taxes. ' : .^ : '"':;.C'' "■--. . The experience of the- Onehunga Borough Oconul is not encouraging to those who .- .hoped by. effort to secure a complete roll ' of eligibles. As the result of a personal -.canvass it ■ was found that in the five m'on'Jhs or less since the national register - was taken almost ons-fonrth. of the raea _■[■■', had moved. It is a habit of young men to , move, and if local bodies are to keep in touch with the moving population they will have to institute a passport system to : ; ;:.': that all changes of address will be auto,y \ matically recorded. Otherwise no list ./can be regarded as even approximately if; .Tcomplete for more than a week on end.

.•' ". A. brighter side of th* Onehunga, effort , . is to be found in the comparatively trifling --~ number who refused to give information. An argument very ■ often advanced by 0;X those opposed to tie personal canvass was . that many of those interviewed would resent the visits of the canvassers and decline ". . to give the required information. This has ;."■ not been the case in Onehnnga, however, 0;? ■ in spite of the fact that no less than 3000 visits , were paid. The comprehensive nature of the work is shown by the fact Py. ths.t the committee unearthed 167 eligible •■'4 v; men who had either recently arrived In •:■£■ ; the district or who had failed to send in £f'i'- : national registration cards. -,'•; A correspondent has the idea of im■'r';;' proving upon the word " Anzac " to make >* r >; it : express more. Some people are never ..J;;/:'.satisfied. Anzac is one of the most ex- ':■:■' jraaye words in the language. Still it ' ;.,.- is. limited in its meaning, and the corresi i-£ pondent referred to has been searching for >.v,-\ a word that would embrace all the great Dominions. He suggests " Canzia," made :•]'? up of the initial letters of Canada, Ausv'. . tralia, New Zealand, India, and Africa. ;>;.,:This is quite ingenious, but the weakness of it is that the word has to* be taught :f;:r■ what it means. In the case of Anzac all -■> the world knows. ''•4' -Many foreign na'.ions, judging us by ./'< our. singularities, long ago arrived at the •,:•-'. conclusion that "the English are mad." : ".V Among obvious signs, to many foreign :; * : ; students of international politics, was the :••-.•;'■".; general indifferenco with which we ;-j; : \ preached peace and practised disarma- ; ; : :-; ; Went while Germany was working at high ;-■£•'-,■. presrore upon preparations for our dey> struction. Now that we are all doing ■j ■',; '■ n ui best to defeat Gorman aggression the -formation of "Anti-German" leagues may [j ,7. well impress the more logical foreigner as i/ J Mother indication of our national idiosyncracy.

_ The Wellington Chamber of Commerce in its recent annual report gave some interesting figures comparing the shipping • tods of their port and Auckland. The . figures given snowed that, for the year i 1914, a total of 3611 vessels, representing .3,376,015 tons entered and left Welling- : ton, while 7720 vessels of 1,918,093 tons j entered and left Auckland For the purpose of making this comparison the totals ™ "inwards" and "coastwise" vessels were 6ombined, but it was not pointed out • that many of the large steamers enter and leave Wellington Harbour three and four times occasionally, before they finally discharge and collect th.'ir cargoes. Nor was 't pointed out that, included in these . totals, was the daily tonnage of the big jerry steamers which run between Wellington and Lytteltuii. These two steamers "■gaged in'this trade-the Waihine and Maori— a gross tonnage of 7835 tons -.combined, and if the gross tonnage is reckoned it would add considerably over a million tons to the Wellington'total; Whilst even if the net tonnage is reckoned j» would be ncarlv half a million tons. »\Weover a dozen or so ordinary five thoup« ton steamers have only to enter and 'cave the port twice instead of once to very largely swell the total.

P It wfll be remembered that owing to 9 • J,. prevalei of infantile paralysis, tho $'f '•''ty Council recently offered special ini§ Jlucenifr.ts to householders to clean up If 'heir backyards, providing drays to carry :■ | away rubbish of any description whatso- ' 1 eve ''. It would L" interesting to know to ■3 J- 1 what extent, advantage was taken of the i| , opportunity. If the experience of a corfl respondent has any wide application, it ;-"| r J s '{° be fearnl that some householders ■£' prefer to keep their rubbish rather than !^' : art with it. Ho states that be has just HI ?°Y<» into a house in the city area, and £-i \!^ m the yard and garden collected more ;i : B .wan enough old newspapers, sacking, tins, ;. '< and garbage to fill two large sacks and a m ; Ba ? lt;ir y pan. Vs'., A correspondent, at Ohaeawai writes:— II u , Ju * a wec k a go J. noticed in the HS?^H ,D a reference to an egg with triple i , \ Perha i <J may he interesting to |PM°W that a resident of Ohaeawai, Bav of I •<4, preparing breakfast writes:— Abiut a week ago I noticed in the ttEfiALD a reference to an egg with triple yo k„ P er h a ] ls it may be interesting to n °w that a resident of* Ohaeawai, Bav of «'«ds, was preparing breakfast a month IMf when B,l ° found that out (A four eggs i|lf»V?i'i : ' were nine separate and distinct llf?01ks,: including three double-yolked eggs iIKa Jriplc-yolked egg." '